CEO of Group Psychology & Psychiatry Practice Serving the Triangle for Over 10 Years; Licensed Psychologist

A lack of ability to manage one’s anger can have devastating effects on a person’s life, to include intimate relationships, parenting, work, and friendships. Clients often present frustrated with themselves for this inability, but feeling unable to change what feels to them like an automatic response and a normal response to stress and annoyances. At Lepage Associates we help people recognize managing anger is a skill, and like all other skills it can be leaned with guidance and hard work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been the preferred method of treatment for anger for decades. Cognitively, clients are taught to become more aware of when and how their anger develops by identifying

Katy Sampson, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist

Anger is a healthy and necessary human emotion; however, if it gets out of control, it can create difficulties at work, in personal relationships and ultimately interfere with life enjoyment. There is likely a reason, or many reasons, you are feeling so angry. I can assist you with exploring and understanding your anger better and learning strategies that will help you to feel calmer, communicate better and enjoy more satisfying work and personal relationships.

Eve Cribbs, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Anger gets a bad reputation from the way it is misused in our lives. If you have a history of this, you are likely going to be challenged with the effective and necessary use of anger today. It is a natural feeling and a warning sign that someone has stepped on your boundaries or something is unfair. If you were to to get some help separating the feeling of anger from the way you were miss-taught about it from your past, you may have a wonderful tool to assist you in self care. You need to feel the anger to understand that you need some type of protection through assertiveness, silence, removing yourself from a situation or simply staying home instead of giving into the pressure of another.

Katherine Cato, M.A., LPC, CEAP

Licensed Professional Counselor

Difficulties managing anger can deeply damage relationships. Intimate partners are especially vulnerable to the effects of anger. If your relationship has been damaged by anger problems, or your arguments have become alarming to you, don't wait to get help. Learn how to argue without damaging the relationship. Learn what helps when an argument crosses the line. Counseling can help you stop the damage to your relationship.

Jonathan Gerard, DMin

Rabbi, DMin

My goal with clients with anger issues is to extinguish the emotion. How to do this varies with clients but can involve finding substitute behaviors for expressing anger, creating consequences for the anger, or finding rewards for controlling the anger. It is also important to understand the function of the anger in a relationship. If anger is a distancing mechanism, for example, then the client needs to find alternative ways to find more "space" in his life and a partner might also need help becoming more independent. One must use care, however, not to blame the victim when anger is an issue in a relationship. Yet another approach to managing anger is through insight: as did Jung.

Katherine Good, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

I recognize that anger is a signal that something is unjust. I help people struggling with anger issues learn to use the energy for positive movement. We all have the right to be angry but we are responsible for what we do with that anger. Sometimes a person needs a non-judgmental listener to help them grow and other times they need specific skills and I do both.

Beth Holloway, MA, LPC

Beth Mumford Holloway

Many of the clients that Beth sees are struggling with feelings of anger, hopelessness, irritability, and isolation. Other common symptoms of angry outbursts and mood disorders include low energy, low self-esteem, loss of motivation and foreboding feelings of the future which respond to treatment over time. There are therapeutic interventions to help reduce feelings of anger and disappointment as we work to toward returning you to an adaptive level of functioning. Beth uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Collaborative Problem, Solving and Narrative Therapy to help her client's manage anger.

Mike Garrett, Ph.D, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Dr. Mike Garrett has a great deal of experience in treating anger issues, especially within marriage. He often takes people through a workbook that trains and equips in dealing with the triggers, cues, and reactions of anger. He also integrates a spiritual perspective from a Christian viewpoint, looking very closely at the guidelines from Scripture.

Gabriella Johr, Psy.D.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Anger can sometimes help you be assertive in important situations. However, if you consistently express your anger in ways that negatively affect your relationships and self-esteem, you may have an anger management issue. In therapy, clients learn about the underlying reasons for their anger and ways to self-soothe and validate their own experience. With more self-awareness, clients are able to express their feelings with calm, clarity, and greater sensitivity to others. We can work together to feel less on edge, so you are more approachable and experience greater satisfaction in relationships.

Meredith Stokke, MC, NCC, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

When working with clients who struggle with managing their anger in healthy and constructive ways, I like to first educate them about feelings and the process of emotion regulation. Because anger is a secondary emotion, I strive to help my clients to understand what they are experiencing underneath their anger, and work with them to address that, which can be a helpful and effective way for them to experience their emotions in a more healthy and appropriate way. I also like to teach coping skills so that my clients have more healthy ways of addressing their anger in the moment.